⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign ^[a]gods which were in their hands, and the ^(A)earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under ^(B)the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

⁶ And all the men of Shechem gathered together, all of Beth Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king beside the terebinth tree at the pillar that was in Shechem.

²⁵ You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not ^(A)covet^[a] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

^20 (A)Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

²⁴ Then Gideon said to them, “I would like to ^[a]make a request of you, that each of you would give me the earrings from his plunder.” For they had golden earrings, ^(A)because they were Ishmaelites.

²⁵ So they answered, “We will gladly give them.” And they spread out a garment, and each man threw into it the earrings from his plunder. ²⁶ Now the weight of the gold earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments, pendants, and purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were around their camels’ necks. ²⁷ Then Gideon ^(B)made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, ^(C)Ophrah. And all Israel ^(D)played the harlot with it there. It became ^(E)a snare to Gideon and to his house.

²⁵ So Joshua ^(A)made^[a] a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance ^(B)in Shechem.

²⁶ Then Joshua ^(C)wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took ^(D)a large stone, and ^(E)set it up there ^(F)under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.